Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]More at http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0202/howe.htm see the nude Sygma photographers (hey - they are french) or http://www.epuk.org/ or http://happythanksgiving.free.fr/english/ (see Henri's note!!) Joking aside - this is the future of photojournalism - two mega agencies - Corbis and Getty Images owning the majority of the worlds pictures (they have already absorbed the historic Bettman Archive etc and now restrict access) tim a - ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:01 PM Subject: [Leica] The Decisive Moment or...sounds like another of those God Damn commie photographers is on some sort of socialist tear again!;-) > FYI - from the email summary of > ------------------------------------------ > NEWS... > ------------------------------------------ > Decisive support by Cartier-Bresson > > Henri Cartier-Bresson has issued a blistering attack on one of the > world's largest picture agencies in support of a group of photographers > taking strike action. The legendary French photographer wrote a > hand-written letter to the Corbis-Sygma employees who are striking > against the agency's decision to lay-off 42 photojournalists and issue > new contractual arrangements. 'I am scandalised by the casualness and > the cruelty of the massive firing by Corbis of 42 Sygma photographers,' > he writes. 'The compilation of an image bank, as well stocked as it > might be, will never match the work of an author.' > > Corbis took over Sygma - formed in France 30 years ago - in 1999. In the > two years since the take-over, losses have accelerated and photographers > have been in perpetual dispute with their new employees. > > (Read more in this week's printed issue of BJP) > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html